Pot, stock (& two smoking barrels)
One of the (let’s be honest, rather many) obstacles to me becoming a vegetarian – as opposed to a passionate lover of all kinds of veg – would be what do to about stock. I often toy, more than idly,...
View ArticleA Woman of Style, Substance & Hedgehog Slice
I have just heard tonight that Mrs Spain, one of my mother’s dearest friends, died this week. My mum died 15 years ago, and I haven’t kept properly in touch with her friends … so it came as a great...
View ArticleEager for Uighur
This week’s column from the Empress in Good Living is a beauty, and extra fun for us to read because we were crash test dummies for one of these Chinese muslim restaurants with her – the Western Orient...
View ArticleIn celebration of celery
If there’s one vegetable always found in my crisper, it’s the humble bunch of celery – it goes in everything from soups to curries to pasta to tagines to all those good Mediterranean casserolish...
View ArticleSnag a sausage roll
The Empress has come over all flaky in her Good Living 3-of-a-kind column this week – it’s on sausage rolls. I can vouch for the goodness of the Bourke St Bakery pork & fennel version, and the...
View ArticleFine but frugal food – is it possible?
I’ve come to the realisation, rather late in the piece, that the dough has run out. Renovation sure takes it out of a gal, and the latest bit of it – our backyard spritz, even done with volunteer...
View ArticleSweet & sour: spicy cumquat chutney
Inspired by Fiona’s comment about Indian food yesterday, plus the fact we had been given two kilos of beautiful Killcare cumquats by our friends the Nannas of Naremburn, I messed around with a few...
View ArticleKitchen calamity
Well, it doesn’t happen very often, but it did last night. I cooked a Truly Revolting meal for my beau and myself. It was supposed to be a lovely rich dahl and a dish of potatoes and peas in a yoghurt...
View ArticleBack to the books
Further to our very satisfying natter about cookbooks a couple of weeks back, I have now obtained the Empress’s informative and amusing cookbook manifesto, first published a few years ago in Good...
View ArticleIn love with labneh
Inspired by the happy coincidence of my friend Ms Melba’s recent gift of her incredibly good homemade labneh – that creamy, unbelievably smooth yoghurt cheese – and Miss J’s birthday gift of the...
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